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Transnational agrarian movements confronting globalization / edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Crist�obal Kay. - Malden, MA ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. - 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transnational agrarian movements: origins and politics, campaigns and impact / Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Crist�obal Kay -- Peasants make their own history, but not just as they please / Philip McMichael -- Transnational organizing in agrarian Central America / Marc Edelman -- La V�ia Campesina and its global campaign for agrarian reform / Saturnino M. Borras Jr. -- Late mobilization : transnational peasant networks and grassroots organizing in Brazil and South Africa / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Mobilizing against GM crops in India, South Africa and Brazil / Brenda Baletti, Tamara M. Johnson and Wendy Wolford -- Trade and biotechnology in Latin America: democratization, contestation and the politics of mobilization / Peter Newell -- Claiming the grounds for reform: agrarian and environmental movements in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso, Suraya Afiff and Noer Fauzi Rachman -- Whose rules rule? contested projects to certify local production for distant consumers / Harriet Friedmann and Amber McNair -- Migrant organization and hometown impacts in rural Mexico / Jonathan Fox and Xochitl Bada -- From covert to overt: everyday peasant politics in China and the implications for transnational agrarian movements / Kathy Le Mons Walker -- Where there is no movement: local resistance and the potential for solidarity / Kevin Malseed.

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Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.: Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families, 'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resist corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in desperation, return from abroad to transform their communities; Little-known transnational agrarian move.


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ISBN: 9781444307191 1444307193 9781444307207 1444307207

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Peasants.
Transnationalism.
Solidarity.
Culture and globalization.
Plant biotechnology--Political aspects.
Land reform.
Paysannerie.
Transnationalisme.
Culture et mondialisation.
Plantes--Biotechnologie--Aspect politique.
R�eforme agraire.
peasantry.
peasants.
land reform.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Culture and globalization
Land reform
Peasants
Solidarity
Transnationalism
Bauernbewegung
Antiglobalisierungsbewegung
Transnationale Politik
Landwirtschaft
Politisches Handeln
89.62 political movements.
Mouvements paysans.
Mondialisation.
Analyse comparative.
Pays en d�eveloppement.
Agricultural policy.
Agricultural reformations.
Internationalization.
Political movements.
International trade.
International cooperation.
Developing countries.
Agriculture.
Rural development.
Globalization.
International trade.
Social relations.
Politics.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Developing countries.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Aufsatzsammlung.

LC Class. No.: HD1521 / .T73 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5/633

National Agricultural Library Call No.: HD1521 / .T73 2008